Deadline: 17 February, 2022

Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to fill the role of Programme and Planning Specialist.

Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF works for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to the country office in the formalisation of implementing partnerships with government, civil society organisations and other implementing partners in line with the Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfer (HACT) and other relevant policies, procedures and guidelines, including the CSO procedure and guidance on work plans
• Provide technical and administrative support in all aspects of the implementation of HACT in line with the HACT policy and procedure and other relevant organisational policies, procedures and guidelines
• Coordinate with other (HACT adopting) UN agencies to facilitate joint planning and execution of HACT assurance activities, and information sharing
• Contribute to development and monitoring of implementation of country office HACT-related SOPs and internal procedures, including for escalation of issues identified through assurance activities
• Design and implement quality assurance strategies/processes for the implementation of the CSO procedure and HACT implementation
• Using appropriate corporate tools and systems, including InSight and e-Tools, report on status of implementation of HACT and identify high risk areas requiring special attention and/or support from the regional office
• Ensure the systematic use of recommendations from the HACT assurance activities to strengthen the risk-informed partnership management
• Monitor internal country office processes for formalising implementing partnerships with CSOs, ensuring that corporate timelines are adhered to, especially in humanitarian responses
• Support the rollout of HACT e-tools in the office
• Serve as the custodian of all implementing partnership documentation, ensuring that they are adequately circulated in the office and properly archived
• Design and implement capacity-building strategy/initiatives for country office staff, to ensure that they are knowledgeable and comply with the HACT and CSO procedures among others
• Design and implement/facilitate capacity-building strategy/initiatives for staff and partners on the HACT and CSO procedures
• Provide technical information and operational support to implementing partners, UN system partners and other stakeholders in the country office on the implementation of HACT to reinforce UN/country office harmonisation and coordination
• Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with government counterparts and national stakeholders through active sharing of HACT information and knowledge to facilitate/build their capacity for implementing HACT
• Participate in appropriate interagency meetings/events to facilitate and promote sharing of information, knowledge, experiences and best practices
• Interact regularly with other country offices and the regional office on HACT

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or higher) in Development Studies, International Development, Programme/Project Management, Business Administration, Financial Management, Economics, Accounting, Auditing or a relevant field
• Five years, minimum, of relevant professional experience in programme/project development and management, monitoring or finance at the national and international levels, with experience with the UN and/or in a developing country
• Experience in or knowledge of the execution of HACT at country level will be an asset
• Good knowledge of Burkina Faso
• Fluency in French and good working knowledge of English
• Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language will be a plus
• Nationality of Burkina Faso

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